DEAR MISS MANNERS: For the past four years, my wife and I have hosted a New Year’s Eve family party at our home. Adults ...

many parents of our older daughter’s friends decided to drop their kids off and go out for the evening, rather than joining ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: For the past four years, my wife and I have hosted a New Year’s Eve family party at our home. Adults ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to the host of a New Years Eve party who thinks ...

A parent's commitment to teaching basic empathy and self-awareness can be profoundly impactful for adult children.

They throw this party every year. But recently parents have been dropping off their tweens, then going somewhere else to ring ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: For the past four years, my wife and I have hosted a New Year’s Eve family party at our home. Adults ...

How can we politely inform people that we expect they will stay at the party with their children, rather than using us to ...

A party host worries that a guest who is a recovering alcoholic shouldn’t be served grape juice in a wine glass; a New Years ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Over Thanksgiving, a relative brought a recovering alcoholic (several years sober) as a guest. He brought ...

A couple who hosts a family-friendly New Year’s Eve party feels like they are being taken advantage of after guests started dropping their kids off and leaving.

Coincidentally, these are two of the households who have never sent us any kind of gift, not even a card, at any time of year ...